Since the 1980s, there has been an upward trend in disaster losses. During the 1980-2012 period, estimated total reported losses due to disasters amounted is US$3.8 trillion. Disasters trap people into...

When the World Bank first teamed up with the European Space Agency to demonstrate how Earth observation can work for international development, a small climate change adaptation project on the coast of...

Climate change, rapid urbanization, and subsiding land are putting the world's coastal cities at increasing risk of dangerous and costly flooding, a new study calculating future urban losses from flooding...

Washington DC, February 13, 2012 — For many people living in East Asia, floods are a fact of life. “We just accept it because we know this area is always flooded,” says Ilah, a resident of Kampung Melayu,...

February 13, 2012 - Tran Hoa Phuong, 35, college lecturer in Hanoi and mother of two young boys, still recalls her panic when she got up on the morning of October 31, 2008 and saw the ground overflowing...

World Bank offers practical Guide to reduce losses Tokyo, February 13, 2012 - Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge for fast growing low and middle-income countries in East Asia,...

Singapore, March 21, 2011 –Japan’s real GDP growth will slow, but the slowdown will likely be temporary, as a result of the earthquake and tsunami and growth should start picking up after mid-2011 as reconstruction...

BANGKOK, Thailand, October 22, 2010 – Asia’s coastal megacities will flood more often, on a larger scale, and affect millions more people, if current climate change trends continue, a new report warns....